February 2012
In My Room
Yaz
Yaz | In My Room
“My record label told me a year ago that only two girls were allowed to come out and be on the radio for the next three years. Everyone thinks there’s this, like, movement with girls, because there are all these girls dominating the pop charts, but there’s actually a very calculated formula to all of it, and they don’t like people that they can’t completely control…I was sitting in a meeting the other day and they were telling me how to get a song on the radio. They were like, “You have to remind someone of something.” You can’t make something new. They were like, “How about you make, like, a Blondie song, but a new version?” You always have to be the new someone. I could be the new Lana Del Rey, and she came out like six months ago. [Laughs] They really don’t do that to guys at all. “He’s the new Justin Timberlake!” You never hear that…The way female musicians act towards each other is so weird, because I think we get pitted against each other. It’s really competitive, but in a passive-aggressive way, because you can’t really get into a fight.”
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Sky Ferreira’s interview with Rookie Mag (via maced)
#the entire interview is really good #but tw: sexual abuse in the article
Really; read it if you can.
(via yologarhythmic)
Blue Leaves
Sóley
Sóley | Blue Leaves
Sign the petition to stop Uganda's anti-homosexuality bill →
change.org
You may have heard that Ugandan officials are once again attempting to pass a measure making homosexuality punishable by life in prison or even the death penalty. Not good at all.
A new Change.org petition is calling on Citibank and Barclays, two of the largest banks in the world and known LGBT supporters, to take a stance against the bill. Both banks have operations in Uganda and could therefore have a serious impact on the future of the bill.
According to the petition, which was created by Collin Burton of Washington, D.C., “Citibank and Barclays have unique and necessary voices that could help stop this bill in its tracks. Their presence in Uganda is significant, and their voices in opposition to the Anti-Homosexuality Bill could have a profound impact in keeping LGBT people safe in Uganda.”
Sign it here. This is important.
“No, you can’t deny women their basic rights and pretend it’s about your “religious freedom.” If you don’t like birth control, don’t use it. Religious freedom doesn’t mean you can force others to live by your own beliefs.”
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President Barack Obama
(via heytinafey)
When did he say this?
(via newwavefeminism)
He didn’t, from what I can find it’s a comment from here.
They Say Vision
Res
Res | They Say Vision
“Nothing at this school becomes an issue until it starts affecting white people. Actually, that’s just how the whole word works.”
—Anonymous reflections on the uproar about police brutality at Occupy Wall Street (via mylifeasafeminista)
Roses Are Not Red
Simone White
Roses are not red - Simone White
“Everybody hates you. So fucking what?! Some people, they just fucking love to hate. Some people, they fucking walk around the fucking Garden of Eden fucking moaning about the lack of fucking mobile reception!”
—Malcolm Tucker, The Thick of It (via havssol)
Hearts for Eyes
Jenny Gillespie
Jenny Gillespie | Hearts For Eyes
one of my least favourite things about tumblr is that there are people who complain about people who write social criticism. they say, “instead of complaining about it on tumblr, why don’t you go out and change it?”
i’m sorry, i wasn’t aware that one couldn’t blog about frustrations that they have about the world and work to change them at the same time. believe it or not, i’m not on tumblr all the time. i do have an internship where i work to show more diversity in the media. and blogging is activism, don’t fucking tell me it isn’t. many of the opinions i have today about social justice were first and foremost formed by blogs. i know that these people have an influence because they have had an influence on me. and fuck you for policing how i express myself and my frustrations, too.
it doesn’t even make sense to tell someone to change something without discussing it first. if you don’t discuss it first, if you don’t explain to people why it’s wrong and what could be done about it, how would you know how to go about fixing it? half the time people don’t realize there is a problem. writing it down, speaking it? those are the first steps.
you can’t fix a problem until you acknowledge it’s there.
i wonder if anyone ever said that about historians. they write down history all the time. we have to keep a record of our times if we want to know where we want to go and where we came from.
Your Hand
A Whisper in the Noise
A Whisper in the Noise - Your Hand
Sighs Smell Of Farewell
Cocteau Twins
Cocteau Twins | Sighs Smell Of Farewell
Sólin mun skína
Rökkurró
Rökkurró – Sólin mun skína
Why is it that the publications talking about Billy Crystal are using headlines like:
Billy Crystal Sammy Davis Jr. impression, in blackface, draws criticism
Academy Awards 2012: Was Billy Crystal’s Oscars blackface in bad taste?
and not, Billy Crystal Is Fucking Racist?
Both also mention that Crystal played Davis this way many times on SNL.
Because that makes it totally okay. It couldn’t possibly be that it’s been offensive all along, no.
My God. Look at that fucking Washington Post article:
Crystal played Davis the same way many times on “Saturday Night Live” in the 1980s, but that didn’t stop hundreds from questioning the bit on Twitter.
Like “look at those stupid people offended by a blackface bit. They should know that it’s okay if he also did a racist thing 30 years ago!”
Fucking apologist media.
Chris Rock said some incredibly deep things in the two minutes they gave him. So he’s the host winner. That guy knows race relations. Billy Crystal? Knows how to be a racist.
